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Korea Ministry of Science and ICT
The Korean ministry that funds the national AI training data programme, run through NIA, which publishes each dataset's budget and size. Recorded here: 2 public prices.
msit.go.krLatest record 3 Sep 2026
Public prices involving Korea Ministry of Science and ICT
- Agent verification content bought by Korea's science ministry (MSIT) and the National Information Society Agency (NIA): difficulty-graded multi-step scenarios that need MCP tools and external APIs, Korean service context with dynamic data, and more than 7,000 verification dataset items, built by a consortium of SureSoft Tech (lead), Crowdworks, KAIST and the Korea AI Industry Association (single-year project, 'AI agent safety and reliability verification system support')
A state buyer paying a testing-and-data consortium for agent test scenarios and a labelled test set, which is evaluation content rather than runnable environments. It is the first award in this cell whose count is public (7,000 or more items), so it turns a contract total into an upper bound per item; the NIA tender notice itself was not found, so this rests on three Korean news reports.
about KRW 1.8 billion (약 18억원)per project (single year, whole consortium)
- Autonomous drone flight video AI training data, Korea's 2020 AI training data programme (University of Ulsan consortium): 320 hours of 4K drone flight video plus 60 hours of LiDAR data over urban, forest and tourist areas
Korea's science ministry (MSIT, through NIA) funds a consortium led by the University of Ulsan to shoot, process and label drone flight video, so this prices collection to order plus labelling, with the data released free on AI-Hub. Planned amounts at selection (KRW 1.9 billion state, KRW 0.4 billion private), not final spend.
Press report, University Journal (대학저널), 25 Jun 2020: University of Ulsan consortium selected for the 2020 AI training data programme
KRW 2.3 billion (국비 19억 원과 민간부담금 4억 원 등 모두 23억 원)per project of 320 hours of 4K drone flight video and 60 hours of LiDAR data
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AIData.Broker, “Korea Ministry of Science and ICT in the AI training data market”, reviewed 3 Sep 2026. https://aidata.broker/companies/korea-msit
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